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There Is a Mob Outside David Zwirner Gallery to See Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms Right Now

Leigh Silver is an arts and culture writer and editor who's always looking for that highbrow/lowbrow sweet spot. She's also the brain behind the viral Tumblr Beyonce Art History. When she's not at work, you can find her at an art opening, in a park with a good book, or at a bar with a damn good beer.

Angry crowds, police cards, and lots of yelling—this is the scene in Chelsea, New York right now outside of David Zwirnergallery. The increasingly disgruntled mob has come out to see the blockbuster exhibition of the season, Yayoi Kusama's "I Who Have Arrived in Heaven," and the gallery refuses to let the crazed art fanatics inside until they calm down.

They're not letting people in until there is order at zwirner. Fat fucking chance

Kusama's exhibition is one in a rising trend of crowed art world spectacles, a list that includes Random International's Rain Room and Christian Marclay's The Clock at MoMA, James Turrell's "Aten Reign" at the Guggenheim, the giant swings at the Armory for ANN HAMILTON: the event of a thread, and the Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Met. Unfortunately, TheNew York Times art critic Roberta Smith predicts that this trend isn't dying down anytime soon.

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